Hmmm well nevermind I activated a different theme and I still didn’t see the mentions notification that I put out there. I am no longer seeing notifications for things like mentions. 

Aren’t mentions supposed to show at the top of the forums? 

That depends on how you have it set up in the Mentions options… Between none, PM (if in use), Email or the notification at the top of the page…

I have it set up as notification.

and these are mentions of you?  you would only see reference to mentions of yourself, not everyone…

Yes that’s correct

so we need to dig a bit deeper then… 

are the mentions really happening?  that is, after you do the post with the mention, is the username linked in the post content to that user profile?

after you do the post, can you look in the db and see if a notice was actually created?  check the xxx_sfnotices table…  are there any entries?

how about the xxx_sfuseractivity table?  check for an type_id of 4 which are mentions… any entries?

I meant to get back to you but was delayed but your querying the tables helped me verify that the notifications were happening. I am still not sure what happened but I toggled some of my plugins in the forum and it seems to be working correctly now. 

Now soething that would be really beneficial is if when someone quoted you that you could get a notification that your post was quoted. Any chance of that happening?

you do get a notification, so not following… you can change that to a pm if you like…

Mr Papa said
you do get a notification, so not following… you can change that to a pm if you like…  

That is something that we haven’t seen working either. And something that we have really been missing. 

Yeah quote notifications are not working.

confused… thought you said back in post 9, that they were working…

sorry, what are quote notifications??

I think @mr-papa misunderstood and was probably thinking of mentions as opposed to being quoted.

One of the items I have starred for the on-going rewrite (V6) is the development of a more comprehensive notifications sub-system with an improved UI etc. That won’t help you of course, because it is a long way off but I wanted to just say we are aware that it could do with an update.

I can see the logic in a notification that one of your posts has been quoted. Again – nothing we have been asked for before which is probably the main reason it does not do this now. I rather fancy it would be pretty easy to achieve using the current sub-system as long as it doesn’t need to be optional. If we can slip it in to the next update we will do so.

Yellow Swordfish said
I think @mr-papa misunderstood and was probably thinking of mentions as opposed to being quoted.

One of the items I have starred for the on-going rewrite (V6) is the development of a more comprehensive notifications sub-system with an improved UI etc. That won’t help you of course, because it is a long way off but I wanted to just say we are aware that it could do with an update.

I can see the logic in a notification that one of your posts has been quoted. Again – nothing we have been asked for before which is probably the main reason it does not do this now. I rather fancy it would be pretty easy to achieve using the current sub-system as long as it doesn’t need to be optional. If we can slip it in to the next update we will do so.  

That would be fantastic if you could.